Sentence examples for yardstick provided from inspiring English sources

The measurers use a yardstick provided by the Weather Service, and take measurements in two places near each other.

Even the chief statistician of the OECD called for better measures of the progress than the traditional yardstick provided by GDP thereby adopting a cause that used to be a hobby-horse reserved for environmental activists.The 700 were divided ino nearly 70 "Global Agenda Councils", and encouraged to brainstorm.

Certainly, well-made tests can be a useful yardstick, providing information that enables teachers to diagnose students' weaknesses.

This therefore allows the tibial component migration of the new prosthesis to be considered in context with a prosthesis that has over 20 years of real clinical outcomes, rather than using yardstick values provided from historical studies.

I'm joking, sort of, but the fact of the matter is that Eliot Spitzer, James McGreevey and David Paterson have, among their other contributions to public life, provided a behavioral yardstick as unsettling as any that Alfred Kinsey or Masters and Johnson ever produced.

The undercover footage was provided by Follow Yardstick Films.

Correct or not, these intentions at least provided architects with a yardstick against which individual buildings could be measured.

Such loans blend funds provided by several banks; a common yardstick for the cost of cash was needed.

Nevertheless, the Commission this year provided a thoughtful and nuanced exploration of the many yardsticks that combine to deliver a thriving, innovative and competitive mobile marketplace.

(Its figures sometimes differ slightly from those of individual countries, but provide a yardstick).

Re-population provides a yardstick for areas whose decline had caused people to move away.